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This article examines the decisions made by judges in contested contact disputes and, in particular, the discourse that judges deploy to make their decisions seem unchallengeable and...

The practice of judicial interviewing of children in private law parenting disputes is well accepted in many civil law countries with an inquisitorial process of adjudication, but has proved...

There is no longer any question about whether domestic violence occurs in same-sex relationships. Consequently, the key questions now concern how to understand and respond to it. In this...

This article provides a partial defence of the Court of Appeal's controversial view in Re R and Re W that there can be concurrent powers to give effective consent to medical treatment in...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has acknowledged that the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1950 (ECHR) applies to victims of crime as well as...

This commentary examines the House of Lords' decision in Re P (Adoption: Unmarried Couples) concerning the exclusion of an unmarried couple to adopt under Article 9 of the Adoption (Northern Ireland)...

Given that the bulk of recent ancillary relief jurisprudence and associated discussion has been focused on the 'big-money' case law, this article presents findings from a qualitative study...

This article reports on parental contact with children removed from their parents because of child protection concerns and placed in the long term care of relatives or family by the courts. Using data...

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 extends the attribution of legal parenthood following assisted reproduction to encompass a wider range of same-sex and fatherless families. The...

This paper reviews common law and statutory developments in the treatment of children as witnesses in Canada's criminal justice system, where children who are victims of abuse testify with increasing...

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